Shots Fired At Browns Probable Attempt at Provocation

If the spot light is kept shining brightly on these poor folks, perhaps it would prevent another David Koresh type incident. They are protesting the legality of the Federal income tax. A U.S.District Court in Louisiana has just ruled in favor of another individual, Cryer?(12-0), and has basically told the IRS that if they cannot show the Law or the Statute to support their taxing authority, then they have none. This might spell the end of the internal revenue service, because the federal government has never had the right (under the original Constitution) to tax an individuals income. The problem is that the original Constitution was made null and void in 1861 when the southern states tried to secede from the union and left Congress without a quorum to conduct the peoples business. That is why the president is so quick to make laws by executive order, because he can, there is no Constitution to constrain him. Look for BUSH/CHENEY to come up with another executive order to foist yet more tyranny on the people. Ed and Elaine Brown are Heros, May God watch their back!! If my History is incorrect please tell me how, peaceout, dryin 

I must disagree with this one being flagged as "good stuff." I urge caution in providing an outlet for militia extremists and religious fanatics. 

Argus,

 This article is very much "good stuff", particularly since the American establishment media has been trying to bury the story.

 Ed an Elaine Brown are neither extremists nor fanatics.

 They are devout Christians, yes.  Im no Christian at all, but I see no justification for slandering them as "fanatics".  That sort of empty rhetoric is what's given American journalism a bad name already.  Besides, Ed and Elaine are understandably under a lot of pressure right now - be realistic, if you were under seige in your own home, with trained killers lurking in the woods outside, and the threat of 5 years in the govt torture dungeons (cuz if you think America's federal prisons arent torture, you havent been in one.  They are BLOODY HELL HOLES.) as your alternative, you'd be thinking too much about the hereafter too.

 Nor are they "militia extremists".  There is nothing extreme about courage.  He is standing up for himself, and his US Constitutional right to liberty.  The IRS has been challenged publically by 3 of their own agents now, as well as countless lawyers, for over a decade.  The federal income tax in the USA is as big parasitic scam as bad as black slavery was, but just like back then people have a hard time accepting that the boards under their own feet are rotten.

A large number of people support Ed and Elaine.  There was even a Freedom Concert held on their behalf, in their own front yard, just a week ago.  Unfortunately many people are terrified of speaking up, because this issue is a direct challenge to the lifeblood of what has become a parasitic regime and people know what sort of criminal abuse Washington DC is capable of today.  This is not the same America of 200 years ago.  Far, far from it.

Ed and Elaine are a kindly, friendly, polite, well-off old couple who have always been an active and welcome part of their community.  But they're something else, too.  Something we havent seen in America for a long time.  They're tough-as-nails fighters, and they've had enough.

It's nice to see an elderly couple we can LOOK UP TO, for a change.  I support them 110%, and wish them the very best of luck.

 CB3Tech, good work! (But yes, more context next time please.) 

The story provides little background. The comments cry that this is buried by the "popular press" and that's simply not true. In the media lately there has been more than enough information to understand that these people have had their day in court and they lost. This isn't a "Bush-Cheney" thing, tax protestors have been around since the beginning. These people are simply scam artists (she's a lawyer) who tried to keep it all and the system won't let them.

I'm no happier than they are about my onerous tax burden. I don't want my taxes enriching the lives of crooked politicians pulling their pork barrel tricks. However, I also understand that if we all suddenly holed up in our homes, refusing to pay taxes, refusing to participate in the processes of the country and refusing to respond to the letter of the law, we wouldn't have a country. Not all but most of your tax money pays for the bridges, roads, schools and even the infrastructure that allows you to blather about on the Internet. If no one paid taxes, all these little luxuries would slip away PDQ.

The first to go would be that police force that keeps other citizens from going in and doing harm to these people.  Their tax-paying, law abiding neighbors aren't big fans of theirs.

These folks are just another variety of granola...fruits and nuts and flakes...all secure in their little palace hoping to become American martyrs for a worthless cause. This will likely end in tragedy and the majority of American citizens will go on raising families, vacationing at Disney, heading to the ocean, holding backyard BBQ's  and enjoying life. Too bad for them, good for the rest of us.

I can see no reasonable basis for this characterization: "a probable attempt at provocation to goad the Browns and their supporters into a violent response."

If there were a law that stated that the federal government has a right to tax your income, Ed and Elaine Brown could be considered to be criminals and deserve to be in jail, but since it has already been proven that the federal government cannot show a law or statute to support their taxing authority, the Browns would have to be considered heros for standing up against the tyranny of the federal government,....as to conspiracy theories if you want to witness something absolutely frightening please go to youtube and watch a video on 911(the attack on the world trade center), by a group called Loose Change. I challenge you to then do the research to try to dispel some of their claims. Then comes the frightening part,.. sit down and think about what bush/cheney are doing with the terrorism laws and how they are slowly taking away all of your civil liberties, all for the cause of fighting terrorism....,I don't like conspiracy theories either, what is daunting is when they cease to be theories....